This selection of pictures taken from the Evening News archive illustrates the incredible variety of jobs people do - from street sweeping to ceiling restoration, firefighting to foot massage and coal mining to crisp making.
Scroll through the old photos and get a glimpse of what working life was like three decades ago.
29. Sandbag time
Council workers use a digger to shore up sandbags during flooding at Peffermill Edinburgh in October 1993. | TSPL Photo: Ian Rutherford
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